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January 24, 2007

What Will Muslims Demand Next?

Topics: Understanding Islam

If this doesn't get you up on your feet jumping up and down howling mad, nothing will:

... The Justice Department has been asked by the National Association of Muslim American Women to take action against "the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), better known as the 'Jewish lobby,' American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Congress B'Nai B'rith, and also the Jewish Council on Public Affairs..."

... In this case, NAMAW is demanding that the government suppress political and religious speech with which it disagrees by branding it "hate speech." This is exactly the kind of abuse of government power that led the Founders to support the First Amendment.

Apparently, anything that speaks against what some Muslims believe, or Islam, is - in the minds of some Muslims in America, hate speech. All of us had better be paying attention to this!

Question of the day: Is telling Muslims such as those belonging to National Association of Muslim American Women that the reason so many non-Muslims associate Islam with terrorism and intolerance is because Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 7,267 deadly terror attacks just since 9/11 and because of law suits such as theirs that seek to prohibit free speech for anything other than what Islamists believe is acceptable?

According to the source of the above number - Islam: The Religion of Peace (Believe it or else) website:

Our critics sometimes lose sight of the fact that the violence on our list of 7200+ terror attacks is not random crime or noble struggle for democracy, and neither is it a "police blotter" of murders that happen to occur in Muslim countries. We only list violence that can reasonably be assumed to have religious motivation - as those who commit such attacks often insist.

For the record, in the past five years we have seen about a dozen deadly attacks by Hindu fundamentalists and two shootings by Jewish radicals. We are not aware of any killings in the name of either Christianity or Buddhism since 9/11. It's quite possible that we have missed a handful, since this hasn't been our focus, but it's safe to say that when it comes to religious violence, Islam is the undisputed champion.

Importantly related to the NAMAW action: A spokesman for NAMAW responds to Volokhh and he provides a point-by-point rebuttal.

Posted by Mike in Iraq at January 24, 2007 1:31 PM

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