Criminalizing intolerance

December 12, 2011  Johnathan Turley LA Times

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/12At a United Nations conference this week, free speech is in the cross hairs.

This week in Washington, the United States is hosting an international conference obliquely titled “Expert Meeting on Implementing the U.N. Human Rights Resolution 16/18.” The impenetrable title conceals the disturbing agenda: to establish international standards for, among other things, criminalizing “intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of … religion and belief.” The unstated enemy of religion in this conference is free speech, and the Obama administration is facilitating efforts by Muslim countries to “deter” some speech in the name of human rights.

FOR THE RECORD:
Blasphemy: The phrase “the prosecution of” was inadvertently dropped in a Dec. 13 Op-Ed about a U.N. resolution on blasphemy. The sentence should read: “While the resolution also speaks to combating incitement to violence, the core purpose behind this and previous measures has been to justify the prosecution of those who speak against religion.”

Although the resolution also speaks to combating incitement to violence, the core purpose behind this and previous measures has been to justify those who speak against religion. The members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, have been pushing for years to gain international legitimacy of their domestic criminal prosecutions of anti-religious speech.

This year, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invited nations to come to implement the resolution and “to build those muscles” needed “to avoid a return to the old patterns of division.” Those “old patterns” include instances in which writers and cartoonists became the targets of protests by religious groups. The most famous such incident occurred in 2005 when a Danish newspaper published cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. The result were worldwide protests in which Muslims reportedly killed more than 100 people — a curious way to demonstrate religious tolerance. While Western governments reaffirmed the right of people to free speech after the riots, they quietly moved toward greater prosecution of anti-religious speech under laws prohibiting hate speech and discrimination.

The OIC members have long sought to elevate religious dogma over individual rights. In 1990, members adopted the Cairo Declaration, which rejected core provisions of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and affirmed that free speech and other rights must be consistent with “the principles of the sharia,” or Islamic law. The biggest victory of the OIC came in 2009 when the Obama administration joined in condemning speech containing “negative racial and religious stereotyping” and asked states to “take effective measures” to combat incidents, including those of “religious intolerance.” Then, in March, the U.S. supported Resolution 16/18’s call for states to “criminalize incitement to imminent violence based on religion or belief.” It also “condemns” statements that advocate “hostility” toward religion. Although the latest resolution refers to “incitement” rather than “defamation” of religion (which appeared in the 2005 resolution), it continues the disingenuous effort to justify crackdowns on religious critics in the name of human rights law.

The OIC has hit on a winning strategy to get Western countries to break away from their commitment to free speech by repackaging blasphemy as hate speech and free speech as the manifestation of “intolerance.” Now, orthodoxy is to be protected in the name of pluralism — requiring their own notion of “respect and empathy and tolerance.” One has to look only at the OIC member countries, however, to see their vision of empathy and tolerance, as well as their low threshold for anti-religious speech that incites people. In September, a Kuwaiti court jailed a person for tweeting a message deemed derogatory to Shiites. In Pakistan last year, a doctor was arrested for throwing out a business card of a man named Muhammad because he shared the prophet’s name.

The core countries behind this effort show little tolerance or “empathy” themselves for opposing religions or viewpoints. Saudi Arabia will not allow the construction of a church in the kingdom, let alone allow public observance of other faiths. This year, the Saudi interior minister declared free speech to be an offense against God, declaring the kingdom “categorically [bans] all sorts of demonstrations, marches and sit-ins … as they contradict Islamic sharia law and the values and traditions of Saudi society.” Last week, Saudi courts sentenced an Australian Muslim to be flogged 500 times and sent to jail for “insulting” Muhammad.

“The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the faithful our army.”

“Since 9/11, the number of mosques in America has grown by 75%. The timing of this is no coincidence. Mosques are a symbol of Islamic supremacism. Islam attacks. Then it plants a triumphal mosque on the battlefield. And another… Mosques pose a dual risk to Americans. First there is the nature of what is preached inside the walls of the mosque. Second is the nature of the walls themselves.

As to the first point, recent studies show that 80% of mosques preach jihad (through sermons and/or materials) and that more than 95% of Muslims attend such mosques…there is evidence that shows that 80% of mosques in this country receive funds from Saudi Arabia.  So here we are with at least 1,700 mosques that promote jihad, the vast majority of Muslims attending such mosques, and millions upon millions of dollars flowing in from Saudi Arabia building this dangerous empire. Put it all together and one realizes that mosques serve as jihadist recruitment and training centers.

Welcome to the intersection of religion and politics. In the case of Islam, welcome to hell. Because at its core, Islam is a totalitarian ideology that demands submission. In fact, the word Islam literally means submission: as in convert, pay the jizya tax and live as a second-class citizen, or die.”

LINKS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

WARNING FROM TOP NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT FRANK GAFFNEY JR. about Republican traitors, namely Grover Norquist,  who aid the Islamic infiltration of America.

This was the 1st warning. Another would come in 2014, which is included after this article.

Back in 2003, Frank Gaffney sent out a warning in an article that was described by Discover the Networks founder David Horowitz  as “The article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published..”

SHOCKING EVIDENCE THAT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAS INVADED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Another warning from National Security expert Frank Gaffney Jr. came out in 2014. He was so alarmed by his investigation that he published a full report which detailed the activities of American Republican conservatives who are aiding the enemy Muslim Brotherhood front groups. He described the Trojan Horse of Islamic infiltration by INVITATION from Republican operatives such as Grover Norquist, the prominent neoconservative who required GOP candidates to sign his no tax pledge. Traitor is a mild word for this man…

Philip Kiko, Lobbyist for Muslim Advocates, Am-Arab Anti-Discrimination Appointed to Benghazi Select Committee  by TREY GOWDY (who was appointed by Boehner)

“I also discussed the enabling role that has been played on behalf of and with Muslim Brotherhood-tied Islamists like Abdurahman Alamoudi, Sami al-Arian, Nihad Awad and Suhail Khan in their influence operations targeting the George W. Bush in the run-up to and during his administration by a prominent conservative activist, Grover Norquist. As recounted at length in Agent of Influence: Grover Norquist and the Assault on the Right, the Brotherhood front called the Islamic Free Market Institute, founded by Norquist and Alamoudi, and Norquist’s self-styled “Center-Right” Coalition meetings in Washington and similar groups meeting in state capitals and major cities across the country have served as vehicles for facilitating the penetration and subversion of the conservative movement.

In the course of my Park Cities briefing last year, I did not mention Elibiary by name and he did not make any intervention or otherwise challenge my briefing. After the meeting ended and he left, however, I asked the organizer, “Why do you have a Muslim Brother in this meeting?” Interestingly, he did not reply by saying, “Who are you talking about?” or “What evidence do you have that anyone here is a Muslim Brother?” Instead, he simply said, “The Center-Right Coalition recommended him.”   http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/grover-norquist/

 Boehner stands by Huma Abedin, calls Bachmann’s accusations ‘dangerous’

“Calling the accusations from conservative Republican members of Congress against a top Muslim aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton “pretty dangerous,” House Speaker John A. Boehner became the second top GOP elected official to stand by Huma Abedin, the secretary of State’s longtime adviser.

“From everything that I know of her, she has a sterling character,” Boehner said Thursday. “Accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.”

On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party’s former presidential nominee, gave an unexpected defense of Abedin on the Senate floor, calling for an end to the “ugly” and “sinister” attacks on the daughter of immigrants who “represents what is best about America.”

The Clinton aide has been singled out by conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and four other rank-and-file Republicans, who want a federal investigation to determine if Abedin is using her influence as deputy chief of staff at the State Department to further the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Media Ignores Grover Norquist’s Islamist Ties And Activities

November 28, 2012

 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is Hillary Clinton’s Minion

Who was the first politician that Obama called on the night of his victory in 2008? Muslim Erdogan. Keep an eye on him and the Istanbul Process…

The Sexual Deviant Bill Clinton Started the Islamic Indoctrination of our Schools with the very Muslim who founded the Muslim chaplain programs in our prison programs. Abdurahman Alamoudi is a convicted felon whose ISNA chaplain program produced the first 2 Muslim chaplains for the U.S. military since it was halted over 15 years ago.  He is a known associate of the Muslim Brotherhood and cohort of neoconservative Grover Norquist.

WHY OUR CHILDREN ARE READING ISLAMIC PROPAGANDA NOT OBAMA BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON!!

Abdurahman Alamoudi, arrested and accused of helping Osama bin Laden and Hamas, helped develop “Religious Expression in Public School,” introduced and incorporated by President Clinton in 1995.

School districts were pressured to incorporate these “Presidential Guidelines” which were originally drafted as “Religion In The Public Schools: A Joint Statement Of Current Law,” issued by groups including the American Muslim Council, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the ACLU which holds the copyright. President Clinton presented his version as “issued by 35 religious groups,” failing to disclose that these “religious groups” are all described by the ACLU as committed to separation of church and state.

 Obama regime only pardoned Alamoudi.

CIA Chief John Brennan is a Muslim convert

His actions reflect his true beliefs: he is on the side of Islam.

Obama is The Scapegoat Community Organizer while Clinton’s treason is out of sight out of mind!!

“Tanks across the borders” …that’s not gonna happen…

Really Hillary??   What about the Christian’s slaughtered in the name of your “Donmeh” Caliphate??

“Well, first of all as I just said, what are we going to arm them with and against what? We’re not going to bring tanks over the borders of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. That’s not going to happen. So maybe at best you can smuggle in, you know, automatic weapons. Maybe some other weapons that you could get in. To whom? Where do you go? You can’t get into Homs. Where do you go? And to whom are you delivering them?”

ISIL Moving Seized U.S. Tanks, Humvees to Syria

Syrian and Iraqi terrorist forces obtained significant numbers of tanks, trucks, and U.S.-origin Humvees in recent military operations in Iraq and those arms are being shipped to al Qaeda rebels in Syria, according to U.S. officials.  read more here.

Hillary’s jokes on thought of U.S. funding terrorists group.  Is it possible the millions Hillary sent to Egypt and Morsi  could have funded unrest as Hillary did in Ukraine??   State Department Victoria Nuland admitted to NGO funding.

Will Hillary succeed in fulfilling Soros plan to replace “Washington Consensus”  for “Istanbul Process”??

McClatchy Foreign Staff September 29, 2014

Turkey sends tanks to border as Islamic State closes on Kurdish city

Turkey deployed 35 armored vehicles, including at least a dozen tanks, to the border with Syria on Monday as Islamist extremists closed in on the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane, raining shells from two directions

Kerry Dissociates Jihadist Extremism From Islam, Cites Factors Like Deprivation, Palestine, Climate Change http://cnsnews.com/video/cnsnews/kerry-dissociates-jihadist-extremism-islam-cites-factors-deprivation-palestine-climate