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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
Someone want to explain to Mr. Spencer the difference between a resolution and a bill?

This is H.R. 569

This is H.Res 569

21 posted on 12/29/2015 9:33:09 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Whenifhow

If they criminalize speech against Muslims, they should also criminalize speech against Catholics, and how about hateful speech about white people?


22 posted on 12/29/2015 9:33:21 AM PST by euram
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To: Jane Long

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

Libtards don’t seem to have a problem with this.


23 posted on 12/29/2015 9:33:39 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Salvation

Every congressman of any religion can amend their religion onto that bill. They can also criminalize the statement that Jesus was not the son of God, for instance, which would criminalize islam.


24 posted on 12/29/2015 9:33:44 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Salvation

No, they need to kill the bill entirely.


25 posted on 12/29/2015 9:34:37 AM PST by FredZarguna (Deathblow: "Not because of who you are, but because of different reasons altogether.")
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To: Whenifhow

You all mooselimbs can kiss my hairy rear end


26 posted on 12/29/2015 9:34:38 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz ,Keep stirring the pot Donald.)
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To: Salvation

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

they don’t need a bill for that. it’s been ongoing now for the past 20 years


27 posted on 12/29/2015 9:36:23 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Whenifhow

Can Pam Gellar be my cellmate?


28 posted on 12/29/2015 9:36:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HIDEK6

That’s why they have such an affinity for Islam.


29 posted on 12/29/2015 9:37:13 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Adams wastes too many words to describe islam.

islam is a scam devised by a degenerate to give license for him to indulge his perversions. Nothing more.


30 posted on 12/29/2015 9:37:31 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Whenifhow
..... By doing this ... the Democrats would create a Government protected religion while neglecting all others. This would therefore be religious discrimination which is a violation of the Constitutional right of freedom of religion.

...... But then again .... who cares about the constitution these days anyways.

31 posted on 12/29/2015 9:37:32 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: liberalh8ter
Where are the liberals screaming separation of church and State?

Liberalism is all about controlling the masses....islam is perfect for total control and a the basest wants of men....no morals for men just perfect control for the leaders....the perfect war on women and democrats want you to not be able to say a thing against its evil.

Women following dems down this road are just idiots.

32 posted on 12/29/2015 9:38:26 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Salvation

The surefire way to get the bill defeated: change “Muslims” to “American Constitutionalists”.

Which Representative will offer that amendment and reveal what’s really going on with the 2 Shariah-supporting Muslims in Congress and their allies?


33 posted on 12/29/2015 9:38:34 AM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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To: Whenifhow

The enemy of our current government is the American people.


34 posted on 12/29/2015 9:38:52 AM PST by Trillian
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To: Whenifhow

And what, pray, would the punishments be for breaking the law about bad-mouthing the sand-n***ers?


35 posted on 12/29/2015 9:38:57 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Whenifhow

As long as you continue to offend Islam and Muslims, you will be potential targets, and not just cops and Jews but everyone
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The only way for infidels to not offend Islam and muslims is to convert or die.

That is Islam.

Convert or Die


36 posted on 12/29/2015 9:39:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Whenifhow
Amendment I - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech!

Islam Permits Lying to Deceive Unbelievers and Bring World Domination!


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Swears In Muslim Representative From Minnesota Keith Ellison Using Quran.


"W A R N I N G"


"Click Image to Donate to FR"

AG Lynch vows to prosecute 'anti-Muslim' speech



Washington Times: Obama secretly backing Muslim Brotherhood


THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS THE MOTHER SHIP

CAIR, ICNA, USCMO, AL-QAEDA, ISIS, ISIL, HEZBOLLAH, ..., ARE SUBSETS.

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.

Islam is different from all the other religions that do not believe in Jesus, because Islam officially declares that Jesus is not the Son of God (Quran 4: 171; 18: 4-5), which is the Biblical definition of Antichrist: "Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son" (1 John 2: 22).

The spread of Islam has left a trail of blood, suffering, and destruction like no other ideology in world history. History, and even this present age, shows us that Islam is a very violent and fascist religion, full of hate for Christians and Jews. No one could invent a more evil cult.

The Beast And False Prophet Revealed - Michael Fortner

The Third Jihad - Radical Islam's Vision for America - (A Clarion Project Film)

37 posted on 12/29/2015 9:39:47 AM PST by amorphous
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To: vette6387
|..being offended” their “life’s work.”

that, and being intolerant.

38 posted on 12/29/2015 9:40:01 AM PST by uncitizen (Pray for Donald Trump)
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To: Whenifhow
I've always wanted to spend time in prison.Well,not really but I'll do it in *this* cause.If Pi$$ Mohammed ever becomes more illegal than Pi$$ Christ I'll be in the streets with a sign saying “Aisha Was Raped!”
39 posted on 12/29/2015 9:40:21 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Whenifhow

Gee, protecting one “religion” while ignoring all other actual religions seems highly unconstitutional.


40 posted on 12/29/2015 9:41:18 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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