Sheik Yer’mami
Winds of Jihad
6/1/2013
…but it may not, under the First Amendment, prevent or punish speech even if it may be viewed as hostile to a religion.”– Floyd Abrams, one of the country’s most respected First Amendment attorneys.
A conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, accused the Obama administration of using federal law to specifically protect Muslims from criticism.
“In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights,” the group wrote in a blog post….
“He’s just wrong,” said Floyd Abrams, one of the country’s most respected First Amendment attorneys. “The government may, indeed, play a useful and entirely constitutional role in urging people not to engage in speech that amounts to religious discrimination. But it may not, under the First Amendment, prevent or punish speech even if it may be viewed as hostile to a religion.”–
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CAJ note: Blogger “Sheik Yer’Mami” is from Australia.
Update: How I became Islamophobic
Update 2: From March 2013: ‘The Muslims of America’ are suing ‘Christian Action Network’ for exposing their terrorist training camps around the United States
They are suing Martin J. Mawyer of the Christian Action Network for $15 million in damages for defamation and libel and are attempting to stop the sale of his book ‘Twilight in America.’
Update 3: Mark Steyn: The elite’s politically correct denial of Islamist terror
Having killed Drummer Rigby, they were killing time: It took 20 minutes for the somnolent British constabulary to show up. And so television viewers were treated to the spectacle of a young man, speaking in the vowels of south London, chatting calmly with his “fellow Britons” about his geopolitical grievances and apologizing to the ladies present for any discomfort his beheading of Drummer Rigby might have caused them, all while drenched in blood and still wielding his cleaver.
If you’re thinking of getting steamed over all that, don’t. Simon Jenkins, the former editor of The Times of London, cautioned against “mass hysteria” over “mundane acts of violence.”
If any Patterico readers are in Tennessee near Manchester — or even extreme northern Alabama or northwestern Georgia — you might consider covering the federal government’s latest attack on free speech…
