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Sharia Law in America WTF
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Did this make sense to you when you wrote it?
American_Jihad
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It starts in the schools where your kids are indoctrinated...
Rutgers Goes Sharia-Compliant
Student newspaper destroys every copy of latest edition featuring cartoon of Muhammad.
April 28, 2016
Robert Spencer
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The Jihad Watch reader who alerted me to this sums up what is wrong here:
1. Freedom of speech is a Constitutional right. It is not negated by someone’s taking offense. This could have been and should have been a chance for Rutgers and The Gleaner to explain why the freedom of speech must be protected as our fundamental bulwark against tyranny, and why that means that we must all learn to put up with material that offends us.
2. Once a group’s feeling offended is taken as decisive, it may begin to take offense at other aspects of campus life it finds offensive. In the MSA’s case, it may begin getting offended at men and women sharing classrooms or coeds wearing tight jeans on campus.
3. In light of the violent attacks on those who have depicted Muhammad, The Gleaner by removing the image is bowing to the implicit threat of violence — which only in the long run encourages more violence. Rutgers’ Art Library recently featured an “artwork” depicting Jesus on a dartboard. It was ultimately removed, but not because it offended Christians. No one cares if Christians are offended: Rutgers officials know that offended Christians won’t murder them. Their solicitousness toward the MSA, by contrast, reveals that they know offended Muslims might very well kill them, and rather than stand up for the freedom of speech and against this kind of bullying, they signal their willingness to surrender and fall into line, accepting Sharia restrictions on speech.
Imagine how Rutgers would react if its Art Library had displayed, instead of this Jesus-on-a-dartboard “artwork,” a cartoon of Muhammad. The air would have been thick with cries of “Islamophobia.” Fragile Leftist students would be running for their safe spaces. The university would be instituting mandatory seminars designed to inculcate the proper “respect” that one must show for “The Other” so as to avoid charges of “racism” and “bigotry.”
The double standard is stark: Jesus crucified on a dartboard is art – and what’s more, it’s courageous. One Rutgers student chortled on Facebook that the dartboard “art” was “hilarious,” and crowed that “we don’t have to cater to the wills of the Church or any denomination of Christianity or religion.” Those who complained would be admonished: Don’t you respect the freedom of expression, you right-wing bigot?
A cartoon of Muhammad, on the other hand, even one as innocuous as the one in The Gleaner appears to have been -- that’s an outrage. No one was crowing in that instance about not having to cater to the wills of the mosque. On the contrary, the message was clear: Don’t you respect Muslims as human beings, you right-wing bigot?
This is the kind of “respect” being irrationally violent will win you. Rutgers officials knew that Christians weren’t going to kill them, and that they could mock Christianity with impunity. They would only start blathering about “respect” when it comes to Islam. This respect won at the point of a sword does not bode well for the future of free expression in the West.
Rutgers Goes Sharia-Compliant
Rutgers Goes Sharia-Compliant
Student newspaper destroys every copy of latest edition featuring cartoon of Muhammad.
April 28, 2016
Robert Spencer
...
The Jihad Watch reader who alerted me to this sums up what is wrong here:
1. Freedom of speech is a Constitutional right. It is not negated by someone’s taking offense. This could have been and should have been a chance for Rutgers and The Gleaner to explain why the freedom of speech must be protected as our fundamental bulwark against tyranny, and why that means that we must all learn to put up with material that offends us.
2. Once a group’s feeling offended is taken as decisive, it may begin to take offense at other aspects of campus life it finds offensive. In the MSA’s case, it may begin getting offended at men and women sharing classrooms or coeds wearing tight jeans on campus.
3. In light of the violent attacks on those who have depicted Muhammad, The Gleaner by removing the image is bowing to the implicit threat of violence — which only in the long run encourages more violence. Rutgers’ Art Library recently featured an “artwork” depicting Jesus on a dartboard. It was ultimately removed, but not because it offended Christians. No one cares if Christians are offended: Rutgers officials know that offended Christians won’t murder them. Their solicitousness toward the MSA, by contrast, reveals that they know offended Muslims might very well kill them, and rather than stand up for the freedom of speech and against this kind of bullying, they signal their willingness to surrender and fall into line, accepting Sharia restrictions on speech.
Imagine how Rutgers would react if its Art Library had displayed, instead of this Jesus-on-a-dartboard “artwork,” a cartoon of Muhammad. The air would have been thick with cries of “Islamophobia.” Fragile Leftist students would be running for their safe spaces. The university would be instituting mandatory seminars designed to inculcate the proper “respect” that one must show for “The Other” so as to avoid charges of “racism” and “bigotry.”
The double standard is stark: Jesus crucified on a dartboard is art – and what’s more, it’s courageous. One Rutgers student chortled on Facebook that the dartboard “art” was “hilarious,” and crowed that “we don’t have to cater to the wills of the Church or any denomination of Christianity or religion.” Those who complained would be admonished: Don’t you respect the freedom of expression, you right-wing bigot?
A cartoon of Muhammad, on the other hand, even one as innocuous as the one in The Gleaner appears to have been -- that’s an outrage. No one was crowing in that instance about not having to cater to the wills of the mosque. On the contrary, the message was clear: Don’t you respect Muslims as human beings, you right-wing bigot?
This is the kind of “respect” being irrationally violent will win you. Rutgers officials knew that Christians weren’t going to kill them, and that they could mock Christianity with impunity. They would only start blathering about “respect” when it comes to Islam. This respect won at the point of a sword does not bode well for the future of free expression in the West.
Rutgers Goes Sharia-Compliant
American_Jihad
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SHARIA, ARKANSAS STYLE
A low block by the Razorbacks.
April 27, 2017
Bruce Bawer
On April 13-15, the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas held a symposium on so-called “honor violence,” as exemplified by honor killings, forced marriage, and other such delightful acts. I'll get back to this – but first of all, am I the only person who still finds it jarring to see words like “King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies” in the same sentence as words like “University of Arkansas”?
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The result: an academic symposium at which not a single one of the participants was a published scholar on the subject. (They were all either activists or law-enforcement officers.) “Being dis-invited,” Chesler e-mailed me the other day when I asked her for a comment, “confirms that the Western academy is ruled by Brown-Shirts; that the professoriate are willing dhimmis; and that even the good people are too terrified to stand against those who wish to close their minds to truth and to shut honest inquiry down and replace it with Orwellian propaganda.” That just about says it. In short: yet another disgraceful episode in the ever-lengthening chronicle of campus compromise and cowardice on the topic of Islam.
Sharia, Arkansas Style
A low block by the Razorbacks.
April 27, 2017
Bruce Bawer
On April 13-15, the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas held a symposium on so-called “honor violence,” as exemplified by honor killings, forced marriage, and other such delightful acts. I'll get back to this – but first of all, am I the only person who still finds it jarring to see words like “King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies” in the same sentence as words like “University of Arkansas”?
...
The result: an academic symposium at which not a single one of the participants was a published scholar on the subject. (They were all either activists or law-enforcement officers.) “Being dis-invited,” Chesler e-mailed me the other day when I asked her for a comment, “confirms that the Western academy is ruled by Brown-Shirts; that the professoriate are willing dhimmis; and that even the good people are too terrified to stand against those who wish to close their minds to truth and to shut honest inquiry down and replace it with Orwellian propaganda.” That just about says it. In short: yet another disgraceful episode in the ever-lengthening chronicle of campus compromise and cowardice on the topic of Islam.
Sharia, Arkansas Style
American_Jihad
Flaming Libs/Koranimals
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THE ASSAULTS ON MARCH AGAINST SHARIA ARE A FIRST AMENDMENT THREAT
June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
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The ugliness was predictably worse in more left-wing cities. Ted Wheeler in Portland tried to stop Act for America's rally. The protest indeed couldn't go forward. And that is tragically telling. There's no free speech in Portland. Moving the rally to Seattle didn't help either. Leftist street violence followed it there.
Leftist violence exploded at a number of March Against Sharia protests. And this has now become routine. The peaceful protest is becoming extinct. And the driving force is left-wing radicalism and the complicity of the left in radicalizing its own abuses. While the media provides political cover.
The First Amendment is being further eroded. Obama attacked Freedom of Religion. His thugs have now gone to war against Freedom of Assembly.
The Assaults on March Against Sharia are a First Amendment Threat
June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
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The ugliness was predictably worse in more left-wing cities. Ted Wheeler in Portland tried to stop Act for America's rally. The protest indeed couldn't go forward. And that is tragically telling. There's no free speech in Portland. Moving the rally to Seattle didn't help either. Leftist street violence followed it there.
Leftist violence exploded at a number of March Against Sharia protests. And this has now become routine. The peaceful protest is becoming extinct. And the driving force is left-wing radicalism and the complicity of the left in radicalizing its own abuses. While the media provides political cover.
The First Amendment is being further eroded. Obama attacked Freedom of Religion. His thugs have now gone to war against Freedom of Assembly.
The Assaults on March Against Sharia are a First Amendment Threat
ScienceRocks
Democrat all the way!
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I support banning all religious laws....Constitutional amendment banning all religious trash in government period.
Is that good enough?
Is that good enough?
American_Jihad
Flaming Libs/Koranimals
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If you dress like your avatar I'd ban your silly/stupid ass...
American_Jihad
Flaming Libs/Koranimals
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SHARING SHARIA
Davis Muslim Hands explains it all for you.
July 12, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley
Last month ACT for America organized 28 anti-Sharia rallies across the United States, one in Roseville, California, near the state capital of Sacramento. ACT described the demonstration as “against Sharia law and for human rights.” According to their statement:
“We, at ACT for America, are committed to protecting women and children from Sharia Law and its impact on Muslim women and children including honor killing and Female Genital Mutilation. We must ensure that every woman and child enjoy the protection afforded by the U.S. Constitution.” Sharia law is “incompatible with Western democracy” and the rally contended that those who practice Sharia law cannot assimilate into American culture.
Protestors from ANSWER, the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism coalition, included organizer Jamier Sale. As he told reporters, “We’re here because this anti-sharia march sounds more like a march against Muslims.” The event was peaceful and prompted a dialogue of sorts.
Mairaj Syed, an assistant professor of Religious Studies at UC Davis, explained that Sharia law can “differ from person to person,” because of differing interpretations of the Quran. Sharia “kind of regulates behavior,” but honor killings and child marriages were examples of “outdated and extremist forms of Islam.” For Syed, ACT was ascribing such acts to “all Muslims at all times.”
Davis musician Gabe Lewin wondered “what is controversial about being anti-Sharia law?” This law, “demands the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy, sorcery and adultery. As a liberal person who believes in freedom of and from religion, I oppose this.” Lewin also expected, “any person of any faith to agree that this law is wrong anywhere in the universe.”
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Sharing Sharia
Davis Muslim Hands explains it all for you.
July 12, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley
Last month ACT for America organized 28 anti-Sharia rallies across the United States, one in Roseville, California, near the state capital of Sacramento. ACT described the demonstration as “against Sharia law and for human rights.” According to their statement:
“We, at ACT for America, are committed to protecting women and children from Sharia Law and its impact on Muslim women and children including honor killing and Female Genital Mutilation. We must ensure that every woman and child enjoy the protection afforded by the U.S. Constitution.” Sharia law is “incompatible with Western democracy” and the rally contended that those who practice Sharia law cannot assimilate into American culture.
Protestors from ANSWER, the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism coalition, included organizer Jamier Sale. As he told reporters, “We’re here because this anti-sharia march sounds more like a march against Muslims.” The event was peaceful and prompted a dialogue of sorts.
Mairaj Syed, an assistant professor of Religious Studies at UC Davis, explained that Sharia law can “differ from person to person,” because of differing interpretations of the Quran. Sharia “kind of regulates behavior,” but honor killings and child marriages were examples of “outdated and extremist forms of Islam.” For Syed, ACT was ascribing such acts to “all Muslims at all times.”
Davis musician Gabe Lewin wondered “what is controversial about being anti-Sharia law?” This law, “demands the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy, sorcery and adultery. As a liberal person who believes in freedom of and from religion, I oppose this.” Lewin also expected, “any person of any faith to agree that this law is wrong anywhere in the universe.”
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Sharing Sharia
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