Thursday, May 9, 2013

CAIR assaults the First Amendment

CAIR does not have to like America's right to freedom of expression. CAIR must accept it. 
      CHICAGO, May 7, 2013 —   Those warm fuzzy America bashing folks at the Chicago Chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are trying to dismantle the First Amendment again. CAIR’s targets this time are a greeting card company and Chicago stationary store. The long established business is well known for Avant Garde, offensive and humorous items. Many of the wares are sexually suggestive and aimed at the gay community, which populates the area.
According to the New York Daily News, the alleged civil rights and educational organization is upset over a Muslim greeting card found in a Chicago store, He Who Eats Mud.
The card features a digitally altered image of Aamina, a hijab-wearing, talking Muslim doll with a pull string. The doll is used to teach Arabic phrases and greetings.
Ahmed Rehab, the Executive Director the Chicago chapter of CAIR sees “blatant bigotry” in the card. CAIR sees blatant bigotry the American way of life. CAIR sees blatant bigotry in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of expression, even blatant bigotry.
NobleWorks, the card’s distributor, told media that the card had sold out in the Chicago store. The card store is located in “Boystown”, the nation’s third largest gay community. The other name for the area is East Lakeview. It is populated by a majority of very liberal people whose tender sensitivities are easily offended. Evidently, consumers in the ultra-liberal politically correct, diverse, multi-cultural neighborhood did not find the sold out card blatantly bigoted or insensitive.
“I can only imagine folks and friends who receive or read our cards, can help but wonder as to whether laughing is the appropriate thing to do,” Noble Works’ owner, Ron Kanfi, said on the company’s website. “But as our motto goes: “F**k ‘em if they can’t take a joke!”  (New York Daily News) 
This is America. We are Americans. We shall not fear. Our First Amendment guarantees the unalienable right to free expression. It even guarantees the right to offensive and bigoted expression. CAIR can take their politically correct, politically palatable, multi-cultural, diversity nonsense back to whatever repressive countries their members, or their ancestors claim to come from.
The false ideologies of political correctness, multi-culturalism, and diversity are direct assaults on our First Amendment rights to freed speech and free expression. Denying people rights was the whole purpose of creating those big lies.
Free means free. It does not mean free, except in the case of offending tender sensitivities. If that were the case, the Onion and a host of other expressive outlets would be banned.
By the way, in Great Britain the store owner and card publisher could be arrested and prosecuted over this card. Think about that. Is this what we want in America? Arrest for expressing one’s self?
CAIR does not have to like the cards. They do have to accept them. Expression and speech offends people every single day. That is the American way. CAIR is indirectly violating civil rights. CAIR does not care. Publicity is publicity and that is all CAIR is after. Of course they would probably get an increase in donations over this. Everyone likes money.  
“I would urge him to make fun of us, but do it intelligently,” said Rehab.  “Humor ought to have even a minimal amount of intelligence but when it lacks all intelligence and is the same kind of message that you would get out a white supremacist group then, it’s not so funny.”  (WGN) 
Someone should tell Mr. Rehab that even White supremacist groups are protected under the First Amendment. We do not have to like it. He does have to accept it, but they are protected. Just like black, Hispanic, Jewish, and Muslim supremacist groups must be protected, unless they cross the line and actively deny others their rights.
The key word is actively. They can express all they want. They can advocate all they want. They just cannot act upon their expressions or advocacy. Unless, of course the activity is merely protest.
Humor having intelligence is just an elitist form of repression and oppression. Humor is offensive by its very nature. It pokes fun at people, places, things, ideas, and whatever a humorist deems funny. Intelligence is nice but not necessary.
CAIR has once again proven it should be ignored, totally ignored. They are not a civil rights group. They are a group of oppression that would squash and squeeze the First Amendment until it bled. CAIR should take “American” out of their name. It is insulting to Americans they would use “America” to deny Americans their unalienable rights.

Monday, May 6, 2013

At least 32 killed in Bangladesh uproar over 'blasphemous blogging'

 Thirty two people were killed and hundreds injured as a rally in the capital of Bangladesh turned violent. Police used tear gas to disperse thousands of Islamist protesters in the streets of Dhaka who demanded execution for “blasphemous” blogging.

The protesters are reportedly the activists from the Hefajat-e-Islam group, which blames some Internet users for blasphemy; accusing people of using their blogs to spread atheism and apparent lies about Islam.

"One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged", chanted the demonstrators as they marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities and towns.
The demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Motijheel commercial district, amounting to between 150,000 to 200,000 people according to AFP. On their way, they set shops and vehicles on fire, according to police accounts.

 

Tanzania police: 4 Saudis arrested after blast

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — A police commander in Tanzania says four Saudi Arabian citizens have been arrested following a bomb attack on a Catholic church.
Magesa Mulogo said Monday that the four Saudi nationals were among six people arrested.
Mulongo said two people died in Sunday's bombing of a newly opened church in the northern city of Arusha. Nearly four dozen people were wounded in the blast just before the church's inaugural Mass, which was attended by the pope's envoy to Tanzania.
Mulogo said eyewitnesses reported that the bomb was thrown from a motorcycle into the church. Mulogo said the driver of the motorcycle is among those arrested.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Thrown in Prison for Shredding the Koran

 http://www.legal-project.org/4045/thrown-in-prison-for-shredding-the-koran

A Bruges, Belgium criminal court convicted a man for shredding a Koran on March 6, 2013. The court imposed a four-month prison sentence and a 600 euro fine upon him. He now additionally faces a revocation of a previous suspension of an 18-month prison sentence for having set a fire in a wood. This case highlights yet again the greater restrictions on speech in free societies outside of the United States and how these restrictions can limit open debate about Islam.
The man, identified in print only as Arne S., attended a demonstration on June 8, 2012, in Ostend, Belgium, before retiring to a café. There Arne exchanged words with a dozen Muslims and tore apart a Koran before them. As described in a Belgian press account, Arne's counsel at trial claimed that the Muslims had thrown the "sacred book" at Arne, striking him in the head. Arne's lawyer, Olivier Ryde, thus claimed that no infraction of Belgium's law on hate speech had occurred. No reports of assault charges against the Muslims have appeared.
Arne's case demonstrates that Belgium, like many other European countries, has laws against what is commonly called "hate speech." In particular, Article 22 of the Belgian Law of May 10, 2007, Aiming to Struggle Against Certain Forms of Discrimination, prohibits incitement of hatred, discrimination, violence, and/or segregation against persons of various protected classes in public settings defined by Article 444 of the Belgian Penal Code. Article 3 of the May 10, 2007, laws defines these protected classes
based upon age, sexual orientation, civil state, birth, fortune, religious or philosophical conviction, political conviction, trade union views, language, actual or future state of health, handicap, physical or genetic characteristic, or social origin.
Cheradenine Zakalwe of the website Islam versus Europe has asked in relation to Arne, "Is Sharia already in force in Europe?" Yet Arne is not the first individual in Europe convicted of destroying a "sacred book," nor is the Koran the only book in Europe that qualifies for this designation. Poland's supreme court ruled on October 29, 2012 that a lower court was wrong to exonerate the Polish heavy metal musician Adam Darski on blasphemy charges for having ripped apart a Bible as a "book of lies" during a September 2007 concert.
In Darski's case, though, the European Union's (EU) executive body, the European Commission (EC), came to Darski's defense. An EC statement on October 31, 2012 expressed the traditional justification for free speech that "[t]his right protects not only information or ideas that are favorably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also those that offend, shock or disturb." It remains to be seen whether the EC will make the same defense à la Voltaire for Arne's anti-Islam sentiments.
Controversies about blasphemy aside, Belgium's equation of "religious" and other "convictions" with physical characteristics such as a person's place of "birth" is troubling. Such a conception of "hate speech" encompasses not just the debatable proposition of proscribing animus expressed against individuals, but also the prohibition of at least certain forms of opposition to ideas like Islam. In effect, an individual's identification with an idea like Islam helps shield this belief from attack in a kind of ideological umbrella.
The cases of Arne, Darski, and others continue to show that criticism and/or condemnation of Islam can be legally perilous in European societies traditionally restrictive of free speech out of deference to group sensibilities and social harmony. Now that Muslim communities have established themselves in an often politically correct modern Europe, rejection of Islam is no longer a merely academic matter involving distant peoples. Precisely the proximity of Islam to Europe, however, demands unfettered critical evaluation of this faith now more than ever. Modern expansive notions of "hate speech" and traditional concepts of blasphemy, now applied not just to Europe's historically dominant Christian faith but also to an increasingly prominent Islam, can only hinder this necessary inquiry into Islam.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Saudi TV channel under fire over 'pig' cartoon

  
A prominent Saudi Islamic scholar has slammed a local satellite TV children channel for showing a cartoon film involving a pig as its main character.
Sheikh Mohammed Al Areefi described the programme telecast by Ajial (generations) channel as trivial and without any educational objective.
“The cartoon film shown on that channel is trivial and has no educational or cultural benefit as it involved a pig as its star,” Al Areefi said on his Twitter page.
“I wonder who is the manager of this TV channel that shows such bad programmes…is his name is Daniel, George or what,” he added, according to Saudi newspapers.

The FBI’s Most Wanted (Islamic) Terrorists List


20130430_fbi_most_wanted_terroristsIn the wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing, media, politicians and left-wing commentators have gone to extraordinary lengths to opine on every possible motive and affiliation of the terrorists responsible — every motive except Jihad. Yet as the FBI’s official “Most Wanted Terrorists” list glaringly illustrates, there is no mystery behind the agenda of those compelled to commit mass atrocities against American citizens. View the list yourself, and see if you can discern the common denominator:
Three more arrests in the Boston terror bombing case
By Bill O'Reilly
  
      Last week we told you the Boston terror suspects had to have help. They couldn't have done what they did without training and money. The FBI is investigating that angle right now. They are over in Russia.
   Today federal agents arrested three men in Massachusetts who allegedly helped Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after the bombing occurred; the feds believe they hid evidence. 20-year-old Azamat Tazhayakov and 19-year-old Dias Kadyrbayev both attended the University of Massachusetts with Dzhokhar. They are exchange students from Kazakhstan. Also arrested an American citizen 19-year-old Robel Phillipos, a University of Massachusetts student from Cambridge. We don't have his picture yet.
    Now think about this, these guys knew their pal had been arrested for the terror bombing and decided to help him anyway... unbelievable. Reports are the men have confessed to the crime of aiding the accused terrorist by obstructing and lying to federal agents. Their lawyers say they are innocent but that's what all lawyers say.
    And there is obviously a huge problem at the University of Massachusetts. What kind of students are they accepting anyway? Four bad seeds on campus? How many more?
    "Talking Points" believes the wife of slain terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have some exposure here as well. Remember, authorities were searching for the bombers for days before their pictures were released. And even then did the wife Katherine Russell alert the feds? Did she do anything?
     The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a magnet for students from all over the world. That used to be a strength when I went to school there but now there is suspicion especially on the Muslim students. Each university and college in the Bay State is responsible for the students they accept. Commonwealth is responsible for the people it supports. As we reported last night the terrorists and their family received much taxpayer money along the way. Along with the ongoing criminal investigation, there should be a state investigation to what exactly is happening in the welfare and university precincts.
    And that's "The Memo."