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January 23, 2007

The Islamists' Assault Against Free Speech: 'The Next Battleground In The War On Terror

Topics: Understanding Islam

Jay Tea has an important piece on one of the main thrusts of the Islamists in America (such as CAIR) - to win their fights not on the battlefields, but in other areas such as in the court of public opinion, the legal system, and the halls of government itself:

[...] And there the weapons they are using are, much like in Iraq, not of their own devising, but bought, stolen, or freely given to them by their enemies.

Right now, I am seeing an open assault on our Constitutional liberties by the Islamists, using the tools we ourselves crafted, and it's starting with the First Amendment.

No good tyranny can survive without the silencing of dissent. It was knowing that fact that made our Founding Fathers enshrine the freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights, and put it in the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

In Boston, the Islamic Society of Boston is trying to build a mosque. A big one. A very big one. And some people don't like their plan, or just plain have some questions about it. So, how is the Islamic Society handling their detractors? Through our legal system.

And in Washington, DC, a former director with the Council on American-Islamic Relations is concerned about the sway of certain "Jewish lobbies" have on our government. In response, she has filed a formal complaint with the Department Of Justice seeking some form of redress.

The language and tactics of these lawsuits are familiar, and well they should be. They use the precise language and terminology and arguments that so many on the Left have used in their own assaults on the First Amendment: "hate language," "hostile environment," "conducive to the denial of rights," and so on. One could take an average "speech code" from most any college campus, cut it up into phrases, and rearrange it to spell out the Muslims' complaints -- and that is no coincidence. It is those very successes that these Muslims are using as precedents to justify their own oppressive lawsuits.

Don't miss reading all of it.

Question of the day: Is 2007 the year of shutting up?

Related:
CAIR at UPenn: "The Right to Free Speech is Not Absolute"
Islamophobia Is Not Paranoia and Profiling is not Racism

Posted by Richard at January 23, 2007 2:44 PM

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